Living Through 2016: Beyond Fiction

By J. K. Pascall

This work presents itself as a souls expression of compassion, a partial memoir, and a time capsule as it recognizes 2016 as a pivotal year in our development. It serves to develop dialog from a single point or word to a general view of reality, placing our reality partially under our control. This is illustrated by events in the authors life with the aim to ground the readers experience of the material. Its an inspirational guide to the seeker who is encouraged to take the long view to see the value of the changes that have occurred. It is almost an alternative route to unlocking ones gifts and heightening awareness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524651480

J. K. Pascall

The author is a middle-aged, Caribbean-born family man who, though exposed to many schools of thought, has found it difficult to reconcile seemingly opposing views. The author grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and has traveled through the Caribbean region and the United States, observing the way people live. After years of public service and studying sociology, a unique outlook has emerged. He outlines a journey and experience of awakening and sharing in this partial memoir. J. Pascall encourages community and compassion and a gentle self-critiquing system to heighten our experience. The author promotes self-reliance and self-confidence to arrest the flavor of our lives.

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Part 1

The Call to awareness

Epiphany

Consciousness is the beginning, it just took the greater part of a lifetime to get to that point. The path to knowing yourself as yourself is the root of consciousness though most of us take it for granted. The subtlety that comes back to ruin us for this system and forces us to work to uncover a deeper understanding of everything. This started for me when I was seventeen, through the weight of teenage confusion and a childhood that I was happy to forget, a friend of the family decided to show some interest in me. I did not know it at the time but my education took off from that point as I was exposed to knowledge and experiences from men as much as fifteen to twenty-two years older than myself. We had conversations about music, culture, women, money and any topic that naturally arose. I was being prepared for life on my own but how could I repay these people for this unusual unexpected act of generosity and kindness. Some might even call it the highest form of love that we can muster, to see someone dead in the water and save him from himself…….

Transformation came in two phases. The first was very slow and entailed my emersion into the world of books. The first being a comic from Cuba called Groo, The Wanderer. It was not long until I moved on to rare books from the likes of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, Chronicles of Tao by Den Ming Tao, Talks and Dialogs by Krishnamurty, Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela, Tao of Love and Sex and The Tao of Physics to name a few. The house was littered with books and the learning was not limited to the books I read but also the ones that he told me about that were recalled easily from a sharp memory. It was here that a black teenager in the Caribbean island of Trinidad gained a healthy respect for Hinduism and Buddhism. The teachings of Parmahansa Yogananda was a common topic and we were Rampa students so the customs of Tibet seemed natural to us. Actually spirituality became an all-inclusive search for truth and a healthy curiosity about eastern culture meant an appreciation of Chinese martial arts and ancient religions. I was definitely on my way to a life less ordinary as I soaked up these influences like a sponge.

For the next twenty two years I would try to live my life using the knowledge I gained during the three to five years after my mentor and friend came into my life. This was the slow first phase that I alluded to earlier. Through relationships, marriage, divorce and becoming a parent my experiences have always been strange. Common critiques would be that I think too much and always analyse everything. Apparently that’s not good for socialising and fitting in. There was always a strong disconnect between how I saw things and the reality of others in the environment. What was it about life that makes things so difficult? Why can’t we ever communicate in just the right way to get anything done? No one takes the time to listen, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and truth is for people who have time to waste. Everyone is spinning their own version of reality and in this mix you are advised to look out for number one.

Phase two came in April of 2015. After re-establishing contact with my mentor after a number of years being wrapped up in who I had become, he sent me an e-book that changed my life. Journey to the 9th Planet by Micheal Demarquet. I was so impressed by the information in this book that it inspired the final push to balance my education. The internet was now available to help with research areas that I was curious about. There I found Phill Valentine, Delbert Blair, Louis Farrakhan and many others. Suddenly the conspiracy theories were not out there anymore and no one was trying to discredit them anymore. The epiphany had arrived and after everything I thought I knew, about a lot of things, most were not true. A lifetime of wondering why other people had such a poor handle on things led to me being the clueless one. Adrift in my mind lost in a sea of information, my mentor served as my only anchor. I had waited twenty two years for this breakthrough but he had spent about thirty-five to forty years searching for deeper insight into truth. Now we got to grow together in this new knowledge. A beginning for me that would provide the end of my education.

Consciousness is the beginning, to know yourself as yourself is a key to finding the mind behind the identity. To wear your identity like clothes and not be a slave to it. The beginning is to do what you have always done through the identity but not be afraid to go beyond that. Unlocking the mystery of how the brain creates an experience from electrical charges and knowing that everything we experience comes from perception. That ability of the brain to order events to ensure that we create what we need to experience. Consciousness is awareness, hypersensitivity, connectedness through reality to access the higher functioning of the mind. That was a mouthful but yes…..this is my epiphany.

How do we know ourselves? Drilling down to what are we but energy and thought, someone may ask why the two are separated. The TRUTH for us now in this time and space, is that we don’t know what thought is. We have an idea what energy is in some of its forms but no idea what thought is. So we identify with our families, our bloodlines, our socialization and our culture. What if who we are shines through what we become and calls to us to act in accordance with our true nature despite the noise. The noise is all consuming with the advancements in technology. That is why we need to slow down and observe ourselves. It is natural for us to observe others but we do not observe our own thoughts, actions, reactions, intentions, traits, shortcomings and abilities. As my mentor would say, ‘to deal with our situation we need to stop amalgamating our problems’.

Spirituality

Spirit beings in organic vessels. Keeping this point at the forefront of our mind is difficult because we